Girls soccer team opens CIf playoffs against Foothill

After a pair of victories to end the season, the Taft varsity girls soccer team got some more good news Saturday when they got the No.9 seed in the CIF-CS Division IV playoffs.

Taft (7-5 in the South Sequoia League) will take on No.8 seed Foothill in Bakersfield Tuesday night. The winner will take on No.1 seed Caruthers who got a bye in the first round.

Taft was not the only South Sequoia League team to compete in the playoffs.

On the other side of the Division IV bracket, No.3 Bakersfield Christian will host No.14 Fresno. The winner will face the winner of the No.11 Exeter-No.6 South.

No.5 Wasco will host No.12 Mira Monte with the winner taking on on No.13Chowchilla or No.4 Strathmore. In Divsion V, Robert F. Kennedy will host Sierra in the second round after both teams got byes in the first round.